Professor Colm O'Donnell BE PhD Eur Ing CEng MIEI

Contact Details

School Of Biosystems & Food EngineeringAgriculture and Food ScienceBelfieldDublin 4

Telephone:

Ext. 7201

Email:

ei.dcu@llennodo.mloc

Title

Head UCD School of Biosystems and Food Engineering

Address

School of Biosystems and Food EngineeringRoom 303Agriculture and Food Science Centre

Telephone:

01 7167201

Email:

ei.dcu@llennodo.mloc

Biography:

Colm O'Donnell is Professor of Biosystems & Food Engineering and Head of the UCD School of Biosystems & Food Engineering. He previously worked in the dairy processing
industry and was an EU Comett Research Fellow at the Institut National de
Recherche Agronomique (INRA) in Paris. He was the UCD College of Engineering & Architecture Vice-Principal
for Teaching & Learning from 2011 to 2014. He has co-ordinated or led UCD's involvement in numerous
internationally funded Biosystems & Food Engineering research and education
projects including EU Tempus, Lifelong
Learning, Comett, Marie Curie, Marie Skłodowska-Curie and Alfa programmes with industry and academic partners in
Europe, Asia, Australia and America.

He leads a research team working on a range of Process
Analytical Technology and Non Thermal Processing projects funded by EU
Framework, Irish Research Council, Food Institutional Research Measure,
Enterprise Ireland and industry. His research outputs include over 150 peer reviewed
journal papers and two patents. He has a strong track record of mentoring members of his research team for prestigious Marie Curie, Marie Skłodowska-Curie and European Research Council fellowships and awards in FP7/H2020 framework programmes. He was
designated as a Highly Cited Researcher by Thomson Reuters in 2014 and 2016 based on his rankings within the world's top 1% highly cited researchers.

He is Head of the Food Quality and Processing Pillar in the UCD Institute of Food & Health. He is Editor of the International Journal of Food
Properties and Associate Editor of Transactions of the American Society of
Agricultural & Biological Engineers. He is a member of the Editorial board of Food Engineering Reviews (Springer) and the Encyclopedia of Agricultural, Food and Biological Engineering (Taylor & Francis). He is a member of the Food Processing
Technical Committee of the American Society of Agricultural & Biological
Engineers (ASABE) and Chair of the International Federation for Process
Analysis & Control (IFPAC) Dairy Processing Technical Committee. He is Principal Investigator (Pillar IV -
Process Quality and Safety by Design) in the Enterprise Ireland/industry funded Dairy Processing Technology Centre.

Light beam from an incident light source impinges onto a surface of the milk batch, and light backscatter is optically detected during a coagulation process and correlated to an optimum cutting time for the milk coagulum. US Patent number 7892584, Publication date: 22/2/2011.

Sponsor : Teagasc Title : Design and development of a novel multiple- technology control steps to improve the removal of biofilms and destruction of spores Start Date / End Date : 01-OCT-15 / 30-SEP-18

Sponsor : Enterprise Ireland (EI)
Arramara Teoranta Title : Development of an analytical tool for monitoring seaweed processing for production of products for use in agriculture and horticulture Start Date / End Date : 01-FEB-11 / 30-APR-13

Gowen, AA and Marini, F and Tsuchisaka, Y and De Luca, S and Bevilacqua, M and O'Donnell, C and Downey, G and Tsenkova, R (2015) 'On the feasibility of near infrared spectroscopy to detect contaminants in water using single salt solutions as model systems'. Talanta, 131 :609-618. [Details]

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